Category Archives: geology

Does Siccar Point need saving?

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Categories: environment, geology, outcrops, society

Hotspot volcanism on Hawaii: textbook vs reality

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Just like an iceberg, the parts of the Hawaiian Islands that you see above the ocean surface are dwarfed in volume by the stuff below the waves. For a start, any volcano that forms in the middle of the Pacific … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, outcrops, photos, tectonics, volcanoes

Scenic Saturday: seeing geology everywhere

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Chris Rowan

One of the gifts of a geological education (or one of the curses, if you are one of our long-suffering friends) is that our habit of looking for patterns in the landscape – the evidence of past worlds preserved in … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, geomorphology, photos

Drawing sharp boundaries in a fuzzy world

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Humans are natural splitters. We have an innate tendency to look at the world and mentally sort everything into different categories, and grades, and entities: this is one thing, that is another; it was this, now it’s that. Our perception … Continue reading →

Categories: general science, geology

A mountain (meta)geologist

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Chris Rowan

As you might have noticed, my blogging has been a little thin on the ground recently, which means I have been remiss in pointing you to some sterling posts from fellow All-geo blogger Simon Wellings, who is writing a whole … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, links, structures, tectonics